February 18, 2015, 3:12PM

Veteran Robert Foley has high praise for the way the Veteran's Administration worked with him to get find housing. The VA got him into a shelter, then transitional housing, then an apartment in Tigard. Foley is lives near a community of other veterans that have become his friends.

February 18, 2015, 3:07PM

Timmie Foreman was drinking everyday and doing drugs frequently. He couldn't hold a job and was panhandling at Clackamas County off-ramp. Then one day a fellow veteran talked to him and helped him get treatment. He now works as a janitor at the Veterans Hospital.

January 26, 2015, 12:00PM

Lio Alaalatoa is an outreach worker with JOIN, the nonprofit that does most of the on-the-street outreach work. He spends several nights a week driving around the west side in a cargo van, stopping anytime he sees someone homeless to offer them water, blankets, bus tickets, socks, sleeping bags, donuts, hand warmers, etc. He also talks to them, hands out his business card and invites them, when they're ready, to visit him at JOIN so he can help them find housing.

January 13, 2015, 11:58AM

Steve, who preferred his last name not be used, has been homeless but never had to actually sleep on the street thanks to services like the Link program. He thinks he secured a full-time, permanent position for the first time since being laid off in 2011.

January 13, 2015, 11:06AM

Barry Allen has found housing after a period of homelessness following being released from jail. He says there’s hope for people who can stay out of trouble with the law, and reach out to services that can help the homeless.

January 13, 2015, 10:57AM

Hank Capp left New Orleans for Portland, where he's ended up on the street. He's hoping to find housing and to participate in as many cultural activities as possible before he dies from terminal cancer.

July 08, 2014, 2:20PM

Portland Police officers respond to a report of squatters living in an abandoned home in SE Portland. A couple who was found living in the home is asked to leave while the house is inspected, but can return later to collect their things before moving on.

July 08, 2014, 12:58PM

Marc Kurtzman and his husband live next door to a house that's been left vacant due to a foreclosure. Having been told that it could be as many as 3 years before the house is sold, Kurtzman and other neighbors have been working together to maintain the exterior of the home in hopes of deterring break-ins and squatters that could leave it irreparable.